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Brazil Freight Impasse Lingers

Court fails to broker compromise

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A Brazilian Supreme Court hearing ended with no consensus on the adoption of minimum freight prices and whether such prices should be dictated by the government, Justice Luiz Fux said on Wednesday.

Successful Farming reports minimum freight prices, introduced by decree after an 11-day truckers' strike last month that snarled the country's roads, was imposed by the government as one of the measures to end the stoppage.

Brazil's National Agriculture Confederation (CNA) said disagreements between grain merchants and transportation companies regarding truck freight prices have caused export delays that have affected exports of 6.8 million tonnes of soybeans and soymeal.

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